Escrivá anticipates that November will close without job creation, something "positive" because jobs are usually destroyed in the month

• The number of employees grows by 3.4% since 2019 but the hours worked only increase by 0.8%

The month of

will end this year

according to what the Minister of Social Security,

has announced this Thursday, who has pointed out in any case that closing the month with zero new jobs

, given that November is traditionally a month in which Social Security affiliates are lost.

"Growth is going to be around zero

or slightly positive,

in original terms,

for a month of November that is usually a bad month looking at the historical series. In the most recent years it

, so it is frankly good data for November because months and months go by and there are increases in employment in a complex international environment", Escrivá highlighted.

Except in 2020 and 2021, in which jobs were created in November, in previous years Social Security affiliates have always been lost.

On average since 2009

in the months of November.

In 2019, 53,114 were lost;

in 2018, 47,448;

in 2017, 12,772 and in 2016, 32,832-

In

terms -the data preferred by the Ministry for omitting the fluctuations in employment that occur depending on the time of year-,

and in a generalized way

.

In this sense, they have not detected an increase in hiring with a view to the Christmas campaign.

The minister has highlighted that companies, which in general terms are benefiting from inflation, are hiring and maintaining employment levels, which is why

.

"You have to go back to 2006 to have higher growth, 4.3%, which occurred at the height of the real estate bubble, when employment in construction and related activities was growing," he puffed out his chest.

The INE data are "of low quality"

Regarding the divergence that exists between the behavior of employment in the number of people working and the volume of hours actually worked -which are much further behind-, the minister

offered by the National Institute of Statistics (INE) in its Active Population Survey.

"The statistics that come from the EPA are of low quality

and I would put them in quotation marks, especially taking into account that they do not match our Social Security data, in which the contribution for hours worked is measured. Social contributions to Social Security They are growing above 8%, with employment growing somewhat below 4% in the year...

with what comes from the EPA", he pointed out.

The minister has pointed out that the EPA itself in its methodology recognizes that there is a "discontinuity" in how it has collected the data since the pandemic, due to the change in habits, with which the data has more volatility than before.

"Historically, from the information that comes from the EPA

The minister has boasted that while employment in Spain will be 4% above the pre-pandemic level at the end of the year, in

it will be 3.5% above;

in

, 1%, in

, around 0.4% above, and in

it will continue below.

He has also pointed out that employment

with high salaries, which will also benefit from the arrival of

and that temporary employment has been reduced.

In this sense, he pointed out that there are now

and that, of the total number of permanent contracts that are signed,

and the rest permanent.

He also recalled that only around

are in a Temporary Employment Regulation File (

), "this system is not being used due to supply problems or other economic disturbances."

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